buppie

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
16
Letters
6

Definition of buppie

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (US, slang)A black urban professional; an African-American professional or executive in their late twenties or early thirties.
    “In Spike Lee’s story of interracial romance, Jungle Fever (June), Wesley Snipes plays a young buppie New York architect whose affair with his Italian-American secretary (Annabella Sciorra) threatens his marriage and her relationship to her family.”

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Etymology

Blend of black + yuppie or an abbreviation of black urban professional, modelled on yuppie (“young urban professional”).

Words you can make from buppie

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4-letter words

1 word

3-letter words

6 words

2-letter words

5 words

Hooks

1 extension · 1 back

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